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...wanted to offer a perspective based on our personal experience,” said Cpt. Phillip E. Carter, chair of the UCLAW Veterans Society, which spearheaded the filing of yesterday’s brief...
...activist who tracks the cases, in the past five years police have paid out more than €6 million to settle cases involving questionable conduct of the police, or gardaí. And last week, a report by the Council of Europe's Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) - its third on Ireland in 10 years - suggested Walsh's mistreatment is part of a persistent culture of violence and poor oversight in the Irish police. Walsh, 35, and her sister Ciara were walking through trendy Grafton Street with friends on a cool night in April 1998 when an unmarked police...
According to the CPT, this sort of abuse is not unusual. The report doesn't offer a definitive or statistically broad overview of the problem, but it is troubling just the same. The CPT's delegation, including medical staff, spent just eight days in Ireland in May of last year and visited only a handful of police stations, but in that short period of time its investigation turned up evidence of three new cases in which fresh injuries were consistent with detainees' tales of beatings while in custody. The committee - an offshoot of the Council of Europe, an intergovernmental organization...
Byrne’s Brighton district superior, Cpt. William Evans, declined comment regarding his officer’s indictment...
Byrne, the officer alleged to have assaulted Trombly, declined to comment, deferring to his superior, Cpt. William Evans. Evans’ office referred all calls to BPD’s public relations office, which declined to comment beyond Burns’ statement...